is high; I cannot attain it” (Ps. 139:6). In this matter, God is totally and completely different from what we are. With respect to what we know, much is incomplete. We also discover sometimes that what we thought was true is not. But God knows everything, and he knows it exhaustively, perfectly, and simultaneously. “Even before a word is on my tongue,” said the psalmist, “behold, O LORD, you know it altogether” (Ps. 139:4). By contrast, we have no such experience of omniscience. We are aware that
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